A CALL TO YOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 77, 1 April 1933, Page 12

A CALL TO YOUTH

LLOYD GEORGE'S APPEAL

SPEECH AT CAMBRIDGE

UNBALANCED NATIONS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Eeceived April 1, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 31. "Now you young fellows must try your hands. It is useless to blame the older generation, for they inherited tho muddle. Youth must now buckle on its armour and cleave a Avay through the chaos," said Mr. David Lloyd George when opening the Universities Congress at Cambridge. "Other means than pacifist resolutions must be devised to prevent war, namely, a reduction in armaments and the strengthening of the machinery of peace. , The. oniy man desiring war in 1914 was not in Germany, France, Eussia, or England, and 1 shall tell the story a few weeks hence. Every country at present condemns every other country's actions, 'which leads to nothing but nationalism, the fruitful cause of war, and every nation remains oppressed. Wilson, Clemenceau, and myself did not create new nations at Versailles, we simply recognised tho facts and expressed a w t orld sentiment in favour •of the emancipation of the oppressed nationalities. If the nations abuse that liberty they are simply doing what mankind has always done and always will do. We are not responsible for buried .nations' rising from their mausoleums, doffing their grave clothes, and donning their armour, for they are but realising tho danger o£ insufficient armament against their aggressive, neighbours. "Most of the nations were unbalanced because of the scourge of war, but the present chaos would have supervened even without the Great War. There is something wrong with the economic system, because abundance is producing scarcity even while science saves labour. Those refusing to disarm are largely responsible for the situation in CJermany, driving Germans to frenzy because they belieVe themselves to have been tricked. It certainly looks like it. The Allies did not fulfil their promise to disarm after Germany had disarmed, merely signing anything and giving disarmament nothing but lip-service."